URGENT ¥¥¥ French official industrial output slumps 2.2% in 2012

URGENT ¥¥¥ French official industrial output slumps 2.2% in 2012

French industrial production fell by 2.2 percent in 2012 from the level of output in 2011, the national statistics institute INSEE told AFP on Monday.

Output by the manufacturing sector, excluding production by the energy and mining sectors, fell by 2.7 percent, an official at INSEE said after calculating the annual figure including the data for December published earlier on Monday.